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Every province in Canada is now endemic for Lyme disease.
The controversy may be low-hanging fruit, but what we really need to focus on is a motherlode of hopeful research shining new light on the disease. Oct. 7, 2019, 2:18 AM PDT By Pamela Weintraub, health and psychology editor, Aeon The fight over Lyme disease is one of the hottest topics in medicine right now. Is Lyme…
Dr. Ted Cormode is a well respected retired pediatrician from Ontario who now resides in British Columbia. He relates his daughters situation and case reports of other individuals who struggled under the Canadian health care system. Watch this excellent informal, sincere, and educational video. View video
[CanLyme note: Dr. Gerald Evans’ comments in the article linked below are a great example of why patients Canada-wide are so disgusted with Infectious Disease doctors. Lyme disease patients are doctors, lawyers, microbiologists, engineers, labourers, truckers, plumbers, house wives and husbands, and children. He paints us as being naive, incapable of making sound health care judgments…
…”Much of the contention and controversy with regard to Lyme disease centres on the Infectious Disease of America clinical practice guidelines referenced in the OMR article. Clearly, these guidelines need to be updated and revised.” Read full text
‘You don’t have Lyme’, or, ‘those rogue doctors are going to harm you with those horrible antibiotics’, these are statements made by doctors frequently to patients who either have the positive test for Lyme disease or have all the clinical symptoms of the disease. The medical community is under-educated, overly misinformed intentionally by the medical…
OUR POLITICIANS CAN STOP THIS NONSENSE IF SO MOTIVATED AND NOT DOING THE DRUG COMPANY’S BIDDING. DEMAND THE VICTIM’S EXPERTS, APPOINTED BY THE VICTIMS, BE THE ULTIMATE APPROVAL BODY OF ANY HEALTH RELATED GUIDELINES FOR ANY CONDITION, ILLNESS, OR DISEASE. ALL EVIDENCE BASED, PEER REVIEWED SCIENCE MUST BE LOOKED AT, NOT ONLY THAT WHICH IS DESIGNED…
Patient says her privacy breached An Emerson woman is raising privacy concerns after she said her doctor was ordered by a rural regional health authority to stop treating her with intravenous antibiotics for Lyme disease. Elizabeth Wood, who contracted the disease in the late 1980s and still suffers from its effects, said her Altona doctor…
